Hints and tips:
...It’s one of Prokofiev’s more extreme works, opening with tolling bells and discordant chords....
...One of the largest is more than 20ft tall and strung with various weights of stainless steel deep sea fishing line, each giving a different note: C, D, Eb, G and Bb, in three octaves....
...Let Mariah Carey shout it from the rooftops in as many octaves as her famous warble permits....
...It could be a sleigh bell, a shop bell or the feeling of a tractor passing by.” Meanwhile, our attempt to dredge up the past in the field is proving unsuccessful....
...Unearthly, bell-like chimes ripple into the air, underpinned by a patter of percussive beats....
...Though the Japanese wind bells, whose sound so colours this score, are not tuned to western scales, the chief impression remains one of profound consonance....
...A bell-toned African hymnal, a blaxploitation soundtrack and “Sweet Home Chicago” followed in quick succession....
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